slitter

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who, or that which, slits.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who or that which slits.

n. In metal-manuf., a series of steel disks, or a pair of grooved rollers, placed one over the other, serving to shear sheet-metal into strips; a slitting-shears.

n. Same as pick, 1 .

Etymologies

slit +‎ -er (Wiktionary)

Examples

WOODRUFF: White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer answering a blizzard of questions after a very disturbing revelation on his part, that earlier today at a remote mail-handling facility, he told us that at a military base miles from the White House, a quantity of anthrax was found on what he described as a slitter -- a machine that opens the letters that are destined for either the White House, the executive office buildings and the Secret Service.

GARRETT: Paula, the investigation, the source of that continues, but as I said, the working assumption is that the contamination of that letter that went through slitter at the Anacostia Naval Station facility came from the Brentwood service facility here in Washington, where the letter to Senator Tom Daschle first went through.